ARTS 482 - Cross-cultural themes in Persianate Painting

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WADV

This seminar focuses on Persianate visual culture ca. 1600-1900 CE, a period in which longstanding models, concepts, and processes of painting in Iran were gradually transformed through the assimilation of post-Renaissance European techniques such as spatial illusionism and modeling, and later through the adoption of reproducible media like lithography and photography. This seminar uses these materials to critically examine the nature and implications of cross-cultural interactions in this period, and to discuss concepts of modernity, hybridity, cross-media transfer of images, and the relationship between established and emergent modes of image-making.

Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: F. Emami

Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: A 300-level course in Art History or the consent of the instructor.